An Overview of Knowledge Acquisition

Abstract:
The process of knowledge acquisition is central in the development of
intelligent computer programs. In the second generation of expert systems,
the elicitation, modeling, and representation of human problem-solving
knowledge remain the principal barriers that development teams must overcome.
This overview surveys some of the major barriers to the construction of
expert-system knowledge bases, and reviews current and emerging knowledge-
acquisition methods. The common thread that runs through research on
knowledge acquisition is the creation of models of problem-solving behavior,
and the use of those models to guide further knowledge elicitation and model
formulation.